Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 05/07/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
They also filter your email "to stop virus etc" and there is no way to
opt out except to have everyone use a special address (change the
verizon in my address to verizononline) to send me an email that
supposedly bypasses this filtering. When I tried to sign up for
wengophone, I wanted to do that, but there was no way they (wengophone)
would accept an email address that didn't match the one in the headers
of the message they received. So I'm screwed & didn't even get kissed.
I've also tried to sign up for the ekiga service, and again, I never
received the message with the key in it. Using 3 different sirnames.
The web page reports you will get a confirming message shortly. Its
been about 75 days, what do they call shortly? All I can conclude, from
the clues available, is that they have compiled a list of voip providers
and filter all email traffic from them to /dev/null.
Fair?, hell no.
Violates the Common Carrier conditions?, hell yes.
Will the FCC regulate it? Congress pulled their teeth & emasculated
them years ago. Now all they do is fine radio stations $325,000 for a
verbal wardrobe malfunction. Thats more than most stations are worth
(without the license of course).
Now, if someone knows of a dsl service equ I can get in Weston WV that
is 100% common carrier compliant, please advise me how to get it.
I'd love to have cebridge come in, they are only 8 miles away and voip,
vpn, all that stuff "just works" when hooked up to them. But they don't
have the cable franchise here, so our other choice is some AOL'd version
from TW who, last I knew, owned the cable system here. Which is another
rant, this is the first cable system in the country with FTTH, but its
now old & mostly one way. I gave up & got dish, but thats going out a
week ago. Contract for a year is up, service is crap. We can do
without it.
Or get cable again, they never took the box off the house.
There's legeslation on the table right now on the subject. Do you want
to know why it didn't pass:
http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499
What do you think of that bozo?
I sincerely hope his constituents remember that bit of idiocy come next
election day.
Dotan Cohen
http://technology-sleuth.com
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Cheers, Gene
